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June 4, 2007
Champions Cypress Creek overrated?
Don't expect Jack Burke, owner of Houston's venerable Champions Golf Club, to be taking out any new subscriptions of Golf Magazine any time soon after this Golf.com article rates Champions' Cypress Creek Golf Course as the fifth most overrated course in the U.S.:
Champions was founded as an Augusta National—style retreat 50 years ago by Texas golf legends Jimmy Demaret and Jackie Burke, but the only thing this Ralph Plummer design shares with its Georgia counterpart is that Tiger Woods has won at both. The grand history—a U.S. Open, a Ryder Cup and multiple Tour Championships—doesn't compensate for the flat fairways, shapeless bunkers and overgrown ditches masquerading as water hazards.
At least Burke and his Champions members can take solace in the fact that Augusta National, Pebble Beach, the Country Club, and Pinehurst No. 2, among others, also made the list.
Posted by Tom at June 4, 2007 4:15 AM
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